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ˈlong-shore, attrib. phr. (n.)
Also longshore, 'longshore.
[Aphetic f. alongshore.]
1. a. Existing on or frequenting the shore; found or employed along the shore.
Often contemptuous as applied to men.
1822Blackw. Mag. XI. 432 note, The functions of a Long⁓shore lawyer. 1837Marryat Dog-fiend xiv, Sort of half-bred, long-shore chap. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! i. (1881) I. 11 Your rascally longshore vermin, who get five pounds out of this captain, and ten out of that, and let him sail without them after all. 1888Argosy Apr. 277 Within easy reach of the coast, where the ‘long shore’ herrings abound.
b. Physical Geogr. Moving, taking place, or laid down more or less parallel to a shore.
1837Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 72 St. Thomé is not thought healthy the whole year through, because the ‘long-shore winds’..are more felt. 1910V. Cornish Waves of Sea vi. 179 When, at sea, the wind is obliquely on-shore there is not only a 'longshore current.., but waves also break obliquely. Their effect to drive shingle along the shore is then obvious to the eye. 1952R. F. Peel Physical Geogr. xv. 253 Longshore drift..is often the main factor controlling the supply of shingle to beaches. 1964V. J. Chapman Coastal Vegetation viii. 193 Long-shore movement of beach material takes place..at the upper limit of the waves. 1968R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 58/1 Currents from both flanks later build up the long⁓shore bar, both trough and bars being affected by long⁓shore currents, and the troughs are scoured by water escaping laterally behind the bars from the beach zone and longshore drift-currents bringing sand.
2. n. A longshoreman. rare.
1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago I. 82 Out of the way you loafing long-shores! |